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Founded in 1919, MWPAI continues to evolvewhile maintaining traditions of fine art andculture. The Museum of Art features a renowned permanent collection, fascinating exhibitions and education for all ages.

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Explore the Museum’s current, future and past exhibitions along with our permanent collection of 300 years of American painting, nineteenth-century decorative arts, European Modernism, Japanese prints, and much more.

The stories of passion, ambition, greed, and human suffering in ancient mythologies represent humankind’s attempts to understand the curious and inexplicable—from astronomy and tumultuous weather conditions to man’s inhumanity to man and acts of generosity and kindness.

The great achievements of North America’s first artists are celebrated in American Indian Art from Fenimore Art Museum: The Thaw Collection, an exhibition that demonstrates the long-standing excellence of the aesthetic traditions of North America’s native peoples.

Celebrate the holiday season with a visit to the Museum of Art’s annual Victorian Yuletide, opening Friday, November 23, in Fountain Elms. This year’s exhibition is a showcase for A New York State Christmas.

The aesthetic brilliance and exquisite craftsmanship of beautifully ornamented historical timepieces will be showcased in Jewels of Time: Watches from the Proctor Collection, on view December 16 through April 29 in the Museum of Art. Each watch is a work of art and was worn as a bejeweled symbol of prestige and honor.

Celebrate the holiday season with a family visit to Fountain Elms. The dining room, parlor, bedroom, and library period room settings showcase Christmas traditions introduced to Utica by immigrants from the British Isles, Germany, Poland, and Italy.

In the first-ever museum retrospective of drawings and collages by a pioneer of geometric abstraction, the Museum of Art proudly presents Geometry in Motion: Leon Polk Smith Works on Paper, on view October 7 through December 31.

Raise a glass to the exhibition Cocktail Culture, a celebration of fine and decorative arts relating to fermented, brewed, and distilled beverages.The exhibition showcases rarely seen work from the Museum of Art permanent collection by artists Stuart Davis, Juan Gris, George Luks, Peppino Mangravite, Severin Roesen, Charles Sheeler, and Saul Steinberg, among others.

In 1865, 14-year-old Rachel Williams noted in her diary, “I went down [the] street with Mary this afternoon, hunting for dress trimmings and never got so tired before, I think. I also got a hoopskirt.” During the nineteenth century, the clothing of children and adolescent girls, like Rachel and Maria Williams who grew up in Fountain Elms, reflected that of adults and of Victorian-era mores.

Bountiful tables of sweets, savories, and bubbly will be overflowing with holiday cheer as delectable Victorian-era Christmas meals are depicted in the exhibition A Taste of the Holidays, this year’s annual Victorian Yuletide installation in the Museum’s period rooms.Following the advice of Mrs. S.

The stories of passion, ambition, greed, and human suffering in ancient mythologies represent humankind’s attempts to understand the curious and inexplicable—from astronomy and tumultuous weather conditions to man’s inhumanity to man and acts of generosity and kindness. These stories remain as compelling to contemporary artists as when they were first interpreted millennia ago.

The World through His Lens: Steve McCurry Photographs is an exhibition of more than 60 large-scale photographs by renowned National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry (famous for his cover image Afghan Girl).

Mantra for the Survival of the EarthMantra:A sacred work, chant, or sound that is repeated during meditation to facilitate spiritual power and transformation of consciousness or the repeated expression or idea that is repeated, often without thinking about it, and closely associated with something.Earth:The third planet from the Sun, with an orbital period of 365.26 days, a diameter of 12,756km/7,926 mi, and an average distance from the Sun of 149,600,000 km/93,000,000 mi.

Shared Traditions is an innovative exhibition that takes a fresh look at aspects of the permanent collection by combining fine and decorative arts in thought-provoking groupings that address universal themes of Place, Personal Adornment & Identity, and Ritual.

Abstract Expressionist painter Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-92) pursued photography as a serious visual enterprise throughout his long and distinguished career, creating brilliant nature studies and portraits, including those of New York School colleagues Mark Rothko, Betty Parsons, John Graham, Barnett Newman and Theodoros Stamos.

Exhibition organized by In Company with Angels, Inc.AdmissionFree to MWPAI members and children under 12$10 general admission; $5 for studentsIf you would like to arrange a guided group tour, special rates are available.

Life During Wartime is the most recent exhibition produced by the Exploring Museum Careers Partnership Program, an unusual extracurricular, yearlong course developed by Museum Education Director April Oswald for area high school students to work closely with museum staff.

Several early 19th-century American artists painted idealized female nudes that they justified for public display by giving the works moralizing titles drawn from classical mythology, the Jewish or Christian bibles, or secular literature and poetry.

The Museum of Art will showcase more than two dozen works of art that address the theme of nature in the exhibition (M)other Natures, on view in the Otto Meyer Galleries in Fountain Elms through January 5.

The 63rd Exhibition of Central New York Artists, an exciting kaleidoscope of works in an array of media by 29 artists.Works featured in this show include quilts and glass, drawing, painting, and sculpture, artists books, installations and video.

Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute will present an unprecedented display of the only surviving version of Abraham Lincoln's Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation document in Lincolns handwriting November 6 and 7 in the Museum of Art.

Saturated Sight: Works of Many Dimensions from the Collection of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute presents works of art that express meaning by moving beyond the basic principles of two- and three-dimensional objects.

This exhibition features stereoscopic photographs of the same landscape views the painter Thomas Hicks (1823-90) depicted in the Museums concurrent exhibition, The Moore Family and Trenton Falls: Three Paintings by Thomas Hicks.

The Museum of Art collaborates with the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, on Certified: Artists and Their Wedding Documents, an exhibition of works from the Institutes collection and wedding-related archival documents of the artists who created them.

Colliding forces, destruction and the potential for transformation are themes Ann Reichlin explores in the monumental sculpture, Counterpoint.Reichlins oeuvre of sculpture and drawing examines issues of loss and memory as well as personal and collective territories.

New works by artists celebrating our vibrant and thriving regional arts community will be showcased in the 62nd Exhibition of Central New York Artists opening with a members preview and reception 5 to 7 p.m.

The exhibition was organized by students in the Exploring Museum Careers High School Partnership program and features objects created over three centuries; including an early 19th-century pocket watch that features the ancient Greek mythological figures Orpheus and Eurydice, and an abstract painting by Katherine Dreier whose subject is modern dance pioneer, Ted Shawn.

A rare public display of a private collection of American modernist watercolors, loaned by a couple with family ties to the Utica area, are featured in an exhibition that will be on view February 7 through March 29 in the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art.

Home and Away: Exploring Photography in the Fine and Decorative Arts from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, organized by students in the Exploring Museum Careers High School Program, opens to the public Saturday, March 29 in the Museum of Art.

Fifty-six magnificently executed drawings by the 19th-century Danish-American landscape artist Ferdinand Richardt (1819-1895)--that have not been publicly exhibited for at least a century--are featured in the landmark exhibition, Ferdinand Richardt: Drawings of America, 1855-1859.